Tomorrow is the
65th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing. In honor of that, Life
Magazine has posted photos from the immediate aftermath taken by
its photographers who were on the ground around that time. As they
point out in a 1945 article:
20 men and one woman [all LIFE photographers] spent a total of
13,000 days outside the U.S., of which half the days and nights
were spent in combat zones.... [Five] were wounded in action, two
were torpedoed ... and about a dozen contracted malaria, sometimes
complicated by dysentery and dengue fever." No fewer than five of
those photographers spent time in Nagasaki, Hiroshima, or both, in
the late summer and fall of 1945.